A man has invoiced his own wife £700 for completing a six-hour deep clean of the house after claiming it was ‘hard work’.
Cleaning company owner Marc Hatch, from Doncaster, South Yorkshire, shared a post on Facebook revealing ‘a very unfortunate incident when a customer refused to pay’.
After detailing the back-breaking job that involved cleaning a large corner sofa, three bedroom carpets and a stone floor, the 39-year-old declared that the customer was ‘absolutely delighted’ with the results.
But the boss revealed despite this being ‘great news,’ he was yet to receive the cash for the job, which he estimated would cost £700.
However, the dad-of-three revealed that the ‘customer’ was actually his 34-year-old wife Jasmine, who replied ‘get a grip we’re married with three kids’.
Marc said: ‘I’m always winding her up. We do it to each other, me to her more than anything.
‘We have an ongoing joke about things that we should get paid for. If I’ve got the kids I’ll say to her ‘I’m babysitting the kids, where’s my babysitting money?’.
‘She’s like ‘they’re your kids you don’t babysit your own kids’.
Talking about payment, he added: ‘I normally just say it to her but I thought ‘you know what I’ll send her a message.
‘She was sitting next to me when I sent it. I pretended I was messaging someone else and she looked at me, started laughing straight away and replied instantly.
‘Sometimes she’ll react like that, sometimes she’ll laugh, sometimes she’ll blow her top if I push too far but it’s always light-hearted.’
Cleaning company owner Marc Hatch shared a post on Facebook revealing ‘a very unfortunate incident when a customer refused to pay’
On his day off, Marc dropped the kids off at school and took cockapoo Teddy for a walk before knuckling down to the six-hour clean.
After doing a deep steam clean of the sofa and carpets Marc, who’s dad to Cora Hatch, 12, Bobby Hatch, four, and two-year-old Archie Hatch, then cleaned the stone floors.
He insisted: ‘It took me half a day, it was hard work. I remind her of that all the time as well. That would have cost £700, she got a bargain there.
‘We do the sofa regularly but I do a clean like that every six months’.
After sharing Jasmine’s sassy response online it’s been flooded with comments from tickled Facebook users.
Marc said: ‘We’ve not shut up about it, we think it’s brilliant.
‘She’s like ‘I’ve gone viral, I don’t have to be a nurse anymore I can just sit here and live off the fame.
‘I’m going to have to start wearing disguises when I go out’ and that type of thing. Jasmine’s absolutely loving it. From a marketing perspective it’s great as well.
After detailing the back-breaking job that involved cleaning a large corner sofa, three bedroom carpets and a stone floor, the 39-year-old declared that the customer was ‘absolutely delighted’ with the results
‘I love making people laugh, to see a smile on someone’s face and to know you’ve done it is really satisfying’.
Jasmine said: ‘When I saw the message I eyerolled and thought ‘It’s just typical Marc’.
‘He usually says it to me, ‘you can pay me later wink, wink’ that sort of thing.
‘He usually makes a joke about how he’s babysitting and I have to remind him that they’re his kids.
‘Then I threaten to bill him for child care services, cooking, cleaning and organising all the birthday presents – all those types of things.
‘He won’t be getting that payment of £700. There will be some response to him I’m just biding my time.’
The full Facebook post reads: ‘Last week we had a very unfortunate incident when a customer refused to pay!
‘After cleaning a large corner sofa, 3 bedroom carpets and a stone floor the customer informed us she was absolutely delighted with the results! great news or so we thought!
‘On requesting payment the customer sent us the below message.’
People on social media flooded the post with comment, with one writing: ‘This is amazing!’
Another commented: ‘Tell her tea had better be good then.’
Someone else quipped: ‘I didn’t get it until I read that the contact was ‘the wife’ then I was like ohhhhh.’
Others chimed in with: ‘Quality,’ ‘Got me there’ and ‘That’s so funny’.
Meanwhile, another penned: ‘My wife could easily bill me for dinners but I’d bill her back for being her Uber’.
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